Israeli strike on Gaza school killed 30 – Gaza health ministry
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The IDF said that a Hamas command and control centre was embedded inside the school. We hear from an MSF nurse working in the emergency room in a nearby hospital about the casualties she's witnessed.
Also on the programme: The first images of the devastation caused by Wildfires in Canada emerge; and as they're set to play Serbia in the Olympic Games tomorrow, we ask if the United States has lost its dominance over basketball.
(Photo: A Palestinian man carries a body following an Israeli strike in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Credit: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:07.0 | London with me John Donison and we're going to start the program in the Middle |
| 0:11.2 | East with conflict and casualties on two fronts in Gaza and also in the |
| 0:16.1 | Israeli occupied Golan Heights. First to Gaza where the Hamas-run Health Ministry says at |
| 0:21.6 | least 30 people have been killed and more than 100 injured |
| 0:25.0 | by an Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced people. Israel says the building in |
| 0:30.2 | Derel-Bala in Central Gaza was being used as a Hamas command center. |
| 0:35.0 | Well these people were sheltering in and near the school |
| 0:38.0 | and they described the moments after the attack. |
| 0:40.0 | We were |
| 0:43.0 | surprised that the Israelis dropped leaflets on large residential areas |
| 0:47.0 | and wanted people to leave. |
| 0:49.0 | The Israelis had previously announced that there were safe areas |
| 0:51.0 | and people returned to these areas. |
| 0:53.8 | We want a solution. |
| 0:55.1 | Our legs are tired from being displaced and we have become sick from being displaced. |
| 1:00.0 | We are asking for a solution. |
| 1:01.8 | Now the war is 11 months old, almost a year old. |
| 1:05.5 | And people are fleeing from Gaza to Raffa |
| 1:07.7 | and from Han Yunus to Derel-Bala. |
| 1:10.4 | Enough is enough. |
| 1:12.4 | That's a better kamasmar up at Anjah. Enough is enough. Unfortunately, this is the fifth time that I've been displaced. |
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